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The OpenStreetMap Evolution of Austria (2007-2011)
Currently I am working on a research paper about the OpenStreetMap evolution of Germany. For the last AGIT conference in Salzburg and the upcoming “State of the Map Europe” (SotM-EU) conference in Vienna I did a similar analysis about the OpenStreetMap Evolution of Austria …
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Do you wanna OSMfight today?
Maybe some of you know the nice website: www.googlefight.com. You can enter two keywords and after that it starts a funny fight between these keywords. Based on the database of “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” I created …
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AGIT2011 – Ein kleiner Rückblick …
In Salzburg fand dieses Jahr wieder vom 5. bis zum 8. Juli die AGIT statt. Wie im letzten Jahr gab es auch dieses Jahr am Mittwochnachmittag wieder ein Spezialforum für OpenStreetMap …
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A comparison of several routing-engines – Which one is the fastest?
I think it is time do a little comparison analysis about the request/response time of several routing APIs. The main question I wanted to answer was: “Is an OpenStreetMap direction service faster than G**gle?” …
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Fast routes of OSRM just got faster…
One of the many bottle necks of today’s web services are network latency and bandwidth. While I was working on a research paper, I recognized that G**gle encodes some information when you calculate a route on G**gle Maps …
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“My Way” to cross Dublin without a Pub
First of all, I really like the following blog post and the idea behind it: “Yes! It is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub”. It shows the power of crowd sourced geodata (OpenStreetMap) and the skills of some individuals …
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OSM meets Academy for Crisis Management Emergency Planning and Civil Protection
On Saturday, May 28th members of the OpenStreetMap community and employees of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance met for a workshop at Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.
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Web-GUI for OS Routing Machine
The OSRM project (http://project-osrm.org/) is in my opinion probably the fastest Open Source software which is using data from the OpenStreetMap project …
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Routing View Europe 2011-05
To all the new readers: Usually I create an analysis about the Routing View of the OpenStreetMap Inspector for each month …
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How did you contribute the *last couple of months* to OpenStreetMap?
I think most of you know my website: “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?”. It is a website where you can find information about OpenStreetMap contributors …